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A catastrophic complication of hip arthroscopy

Maurilio Bruno1, Valentina Longhino, Valerio Sansone

  • 1Orthopaedic Department, Università degli Studi di Milano, Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi IRCCS, Milan, Italy.

Arthroscopy : the Journal of Arthroscopic & Related Surgery : Official Publication of the Arthroscopy Association of North America and the International Arthroscopy Association
|June 21, 2011
PubMed

We present the case of an unusual and serious complication of hip arthroscopy due to the severance of the inferior gluteal artery. The lesion induced a severe anemic condition and the formation of a large pseudoaneurysm, which compressed the sciatic nerve and left permanent neurologic sequelae. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of its kind. We also describe how to establish a safe posterior hip joint arthroscopic portal to avoid such a complication.

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